Yosemite

Yosemite National Park with 748,542 acres of land was established in 1890. The most popular destination in Yosemite is a Yosemite Valley where the most famous sites of the park are concentrated such as Half Dome and EL Capitan.

Yosemite Valley's seven square miles consist of a main loop that most tour buses follow stopping at the main points of interest. Yosemite National park's visitors center is located in the Yosemite Village along with shops, restaurants, the Yosemite Museum, the Indian Village, and the Ansel Adams Gallery. Tours of the valley can be taken at the visitors center. Tours from San Francisco to Yosemite National Park generally stop at the Yosemite launch which is a short distance from the Yosemite Village.

One of America's favorites, Yosemite
Park is located in California close
to the border with the state of Nevada in the Sierra
Nevada mountain range.

Yosemite park has taken millions of years
to be created and it is constantly evolving. Yosemite
Park is the result of a Glacier Tanya sliding down
hill as it melted and carving the granite stone that
formed a "V" shaped valley into a "U" shaped
valley.

Today, natural forces are still chipping
away at the shape of Yosemite
National Park. Floods, land & rock slides,
fires, and man are influencing the trajectory of Yosemite
park. Even the famous Yosemite
valley is the result of generations of Native Americans
burning to promote the growth of grass for the manufacture
of ornaments such as basket weaving.

Many of the trees in Yosemite
park valley are not native. And to top it all
off, the Yosemite park valley used to have a lake
which was drained by the blasting of a natural damn
by an early white settler.

But don't frown, Yosemite park will keep
on transforming long after we are all gone and there
is nothing we can do to stop it.